Software Development Manager

at  American Innovations LTD

Description:
Are you looking for a new Leadership role? Are you looking to provide production support for mission critical applications? If the answer is yes, then we need to chat!

ABOUT US:

American Innovations is a technology leader providing critical software and services that supports our nation’s most important infrastructure in the energy space. We do this by providing a wide range of leading-edge technology solutions spanning across our Mobile edge computing, IoT and SaaS platforms.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• A highly influential role that can truly help drive the business forward from a technical perspective and provide wide exposure across all of American Innovations product lines.
• This is a hands-on management position. Up to 70% of your time may be spent making strategic technical contributions such as designing, developing, DevOps, etc. You will ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams and third-party providers.
• You will engage in mentoring and guiding the professional development of American Innovations technical staff, as well as identify and recommend opportunities for developing product functional and technical strategies for your domain. This will include the development of actionable short and long-term product roadmaps, by partnering with business leaders, product managers, systems architects, Security Operations, Support and more experienced engineers.
• You will also make decisions and in resolving design challenges, create and oversee strategic product design from the engineering perspective, write code on our application stack in addition to overseeing an engineering team of 6-10 ensuring the delivery of commitments aligned to our engineering roadmaps.
• Be an experienced Engineer with a technical background focused on Microsoft C# .NET Azure technology stack, containerization and cloud technologies. We are always looking at ways of improving how we work; therefore, you’ll be an innovative thinker with real attention to detail and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Be a supportive team player, with the ability to build effective working relationships with individuals across varying locations, and level of technical aptitude.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Apply knowledge of standards, policies, best practice and organizational structure so that you can work both independently and collaboratively within your team and with key stakeholders.
• Provide informal guidance and share knowledge with colleagues to enable them to contribute to the team’s objectives.
• Ensure the quality of tasks, deliverables, services and information provided by your team – through the quality of your own work and the support you provide to others - to ensure that your team delivers high-quality, maintainable software which adheres to American Innovations standards and policies.
• Support the evaluation and resolution of technical challenges and blockers to minimize their impact on the team’s delivery and/or supported products.
• Identify and support improvements and innovation in technologies/practices within your team that would benefit the business, e.g. efficiency in the software development process or improved customer experience.